Meryl Streep
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
62) Lions for lambs
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines. They...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Novelist Alice Hughes boards an ocean liner with her two best friends from college to have some fun and heal old wounds, while her nephew - who tags along to look after them - falls for an alluring stowaway.
64) The iron lady
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
65) The hours
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
67) Silkwood
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
68) Silkwood
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Karen Silkwood, an Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who died under mysterious circumstances when she tried to blow the whistle on the practices of the company she worked for.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (398 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wedding date: Kat Ellis is determined to attend her younger sister's wedding with a date. Rather than face the ridicule of her family, and in order to show up her ex-fiance, she resorts to the Yellow Pages to find an escort.
Prime: Rafi is a recently divorced 37-year-old Manhattan career woman. She meets Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from Brooklyn, and the two fall in love. Told from everyone's point-of-view, including friends, relatives,...
71) Adaptation
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
72) Chrysanthemum
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
74) Big tree
Author
Formats
Description
Sycamore seed siblings Merwin and Louise must use their wits and imaginations to navigate a mysterious and often dangerous world, filled with talking plants, monsters, meteors, and the fear of never finding the right conditions to set down roots and become big trees.
75) Spinky Sulks
Author
Formats
Description
William Steig's Spinky Sulks is a 1988 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year.
Spinky is convinced that his family hates him and goes off to sulk in his hammock. His brother and sister try to make amends. His mom even brings him a beautiful tray of food. But nothing can get Spinky to stop sulking-not even a circus passing by on his street! Will Spinky ever cheer up? Spinky Sulks is another...
Series
Criterion collection volume 768
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Description
A parallel narrative of a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and of the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair.
77) Chrysanthemum
Author
Series
Description
A little mouse thinks her name is absolutely perfect until she starts school and all the kids make fun of her.
Author
Description
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and...
Author
Description
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and...
Author
Description
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and...